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Educational Materials | Earth and Environmental Sciences
“Geology Animations, Interactive Exercises, and now… Songs!”
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“Find animations for the rock cycle including metamorphic rock formation, clastic sedimentary rocks formation, igneous rock formation, and igneous rocks classification. “
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Best Educational Multi-player Apps for Kids
“It is about time we took full advantage of the power of educational multi-player apps for kids! The amount of screen time and solo experience kids get while playing apps has been scrutinized from day one. To our delight, several developers have caught on to the possibilities of educational, multi-player apps. With social interactions, friendly competition, and group cooperation all being carefully considered, TWA has put together our first list highlighting some of the best multi-player apps available.”
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Blended Learning: Strategies for Engagement | Edutopia
“There are methods and models for implementing blended learning — from the flipped classroom, to the flex model. All of them are on the continuum of just how much time is spent online and in the online classroom. Blended Learning can provide a unique way of not only engaging students in collaborative work and projects, but also personalizing and individualizing instruction for students. “
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New Guide! Mobile Devices for Learning: What You Need to Know | Edutopia
“New Guide! Mobile Devices for Learning: What You Need to Know
Getting kids engaged with learning, focused on working smarter, and ready for the future.This guide can help you better understand how mobile gadgets — cell phones, tablets, and smartphones — can engage students and change their learning environment. “
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Mobile Learning: Resource Roundup | Edutopia
“Mobile Learning: Resource Roundup
From smartphones and tablets, to MP3 players and e-readers, today’s students have a variety of mobile technologies at their fingertips. Here’s a look at some mobile learning resources from Edutopia and around the Web.” -
The Mobile Native: 50 Shades of Mobile
blogs, links
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Word Joust for 6-8 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
“Word Joust for Grades 6-8: Encourage your students or children to play it daily & watch their vocabulary improve dramatically. Ideal for elementary school students & English Language Learners (ELL/ESL)”
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BrainPOP | Science | Learn about Rock Cycle
Rock Cycle – Everything goes in cycles, even rocks! In this BrainPOP movie, Tim and Moby explain how one type of rock can actually become another! You’ll explore the three types of rock — igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary — and learn examples of each kind.”
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Mobile Learning: 6 Apps and Web Tools for Middle School Students | Edutopia
“Credit: Jared Andrew Schorr
Building vocabulary with a smartphone game? Frog dissection in science class without the mess? These are just a few ways mobile devices are changing how students grasp subjects.
With that in mind, here are six apps for middle school students”
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Apps in Education: SAMR Model Apps Poster
“SAMR Model Apps Poster ” – substitution, augmentation, modification, redefinition – ways apps can be used to impact teaching and learning
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Apps in Education: SAMR Model Apps Poster
“SAMR Model Apps Poster ” – substitution, augmentation, modification, redefinition – ways apps can be used to impact teaching and learning
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Interactives . The Rock Cycle . Introduction
” Discover rock secrets through these activities. Create a rock collection as you learn about the three main types of rock, find out how to tell the different rock types apart, and see how rocks change from one type into another!”
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Interactive Rock Cycle Animation
“This cutaway view of Earth shows where some common rock-forming processes occur. Embedded animations will illustrate the path of a rock moving through the rock cycle.
! Click the image to start the animation. Each time the main animation stops, click the blinking feature to see a visualization. After”
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iPad Tips for Teachers Using iBooks for Education | Jonathan Wylie
“whole slew of features that are new, or not as well known, in Apple’s default e-reader. “
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“Centrally Manage Mobile Devices, Macs, and PCs Unify management and control of thousands of iOS, Android, Mac, and PC devices in Meraki’s secure, browser-based dashboard. Systems Manager is intuitive and requires no training or dedicated staff. Systems Manager works on any vendor’s network — even if the managed devices are on the road, at a café, or used at home.”
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iLearn Technology » Meraki: Manage Mobile Devices from the Cloud…FREE
“Meraki lets you centrally manage mobile devices, macs and PC’s from the cloud based dashboard. The systems manager makes it simple to centrally manage applications on iOS, Android, Mac and PC devices. It integrates with Google Play, Amazon Appstore, Apple App Store and Apple’s Volume Purchase Program. In addition to being able to manage apps, Meraki makes it easy to enforce and deploy restrictions on mobile devices. Choose how your students access the app store, gaming and content, how they connect wirelessly, security settings and remote VPN access.”
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Media Literacy | KQED Public Media for Northern CA
“Foster independent thinking and 21st century literacy skills with KQED Media Literacy resources. The ability to think critically about the powerful images, words, sounds, and messages that saturate contemporary culture increases students’ chance of success in and outside of the classroom. “
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Curriculum Bank | KQED Public Media for Northern CA
“Browse or search KQED Education’s library of lesson plans, educator guides and student activities inspired by programming from KQED television, radio and interactive.”
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“the Internet has made the world smaller. Teachers can now collaborate with classrooms around the world to expose different culture to students. Two educators listed just a few of the advantages of investing in a globally connected classroom during a recent webinar hosted by EdWeb.”
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Free Technology for Teachers: Create Your Own iPad Games on TinyTap
“TinyTap could be a great app for creating games that are tailored specifically to your students. You could create a game based on pictures of things in your school. Then your students can play the game to practice recognizing things like the school nurse’s office and the names of people in the school office. “
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The three iPad apps every elementary school should buy | Remix Teaching
” apps that are most useful are those that are the most flexible. If you have a limited amount of funds for iPad apps, don’t spend it on content apps! Spend that money on stuff that you’ll be able to use not just in one class, but in every class all day long. Here are my nominations for the three apps that you should buy first for your school, whether you have one iPad or 1:1 iPads. At $13 total “
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Illuminating the Common Core: Student Work to Inspire Schools – Curriculum Matters – Education Week
“examples featured in the collection, including some of the references to the common core. The links I’ve included provide background and analysis of each project, including specific standards referenced.”
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Technology Changes – Your Lessons Should Too | Instructional Tech Talk
“If you find that you are getting bored with your content, spice it up by finding a tool online that gets you excited about teaching your topic again. Nothing is better than going into a classroom excited to teach.”
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11 Ideas for Fostering an Innovative Culture | Connected Principals
“What I believe is important, is that you figure out what is crucial and you find a way to make it happen. Do not simply allow a “rule” or “policy” to be the end of a great idea. Figure out how to work within your system to foster innovation and creativity. I am not saying to be subversive, but ask hard questions and lead people to continuously ask the question, “What is best for kids?””
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37 Ways Teachers Can Use Pinterest In The Classroom – Teachers with Apps
“Using online “pinboards” teachers can save everything from photos to blog posts in one easily accessible and usable place.”
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Rock Cycle Simulation Lab – Science Teacher Resources – TeachersPayTeachers.com
“This lab walks students through modeling rock cycle processes, and asks them to make analogies between the activity and the rock cycle.”
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Wikispaces for Designing Common Core Activities – Getting Smart by Susan Oxnevad
“toolkit. A good starting point is to find and utilize a flexible online learning platform that supports a variety of multimedia. Choose tools that support video, audio, images, links and text to provide students with flexible learning paths to support their diverse needs. Choose tools that facilitate collaboration and provide opportunities to extend discussions beyond the classroom 24/7. To keep the focus on the learning instead of the tech, choose digital tools that are user friendly.”
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“#Edchat
The purpose of this site is to convert the inspiring and thought-provoking discussion from the weekly Twitter #edchat into real change.” -
Listen Up! The Science of Hearing… – Naked Scientists Science Podcasts and Science Radio Shows
“Now hear this! This week we explore the workings of the auditory system, discover the causes of deafness, hear how hearing aids work and probe the origins of tinnitus.”
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Interactives . The Rock Cycle . How Rocks Change
“Does it seem to you that rocks never change? For example, if you find a chunk of granite today, can you expect that it will still be granite at the end of your lifetime? That may well be true — but only because our lifetimes are very short relative to the history of the earth.”
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